Sprinkling apparatus.



5. A. lMAlHERS. SPRINKLING APPARATUS.

AIILIUATIOK FILED JAH. 19, 1907. RENEWED FEB. 18,v 1913.

www@

Patented July 29, 1913..

*l 2 SHEETS-SHEET l.

E. A. MATHERS.

y SPRINKLING APPARATUS. APPLIOATION FILED JAN.19,`1907. Rmmwzn man. ma.

l1@68,796. Patented Ju1y29,1913.

5@ gw MM@ @Hennig #M7/md.

which leads to a sprinklingr pipe 28 mounted on brackets b* on the underside of the bed Band extending from one side of the truck frame to tbc other,providing for sprinkling the ground between the rails of the track.

The operation is as follows: The parts being in the position shown in Fig. 1 and the engine 15 beiilig in operation, the water from tank B3 wil e pumped by the pump 16 through the pipes as 'described to the sprinkling pipe C carried by the frame C and through said pipe C1 and the sprinkling heads c over the ground covered by said frame C. The spool.21 will at the same time be rotated by said engine which will operate through the cable 22 to draw the truck and the apparatus carried thereby to- Ward one end or the other of the track. When one end of the track has been reached the engine will be reversed and' the apparatus will travel in the reverse direction to' the other end of the track. By this arrangement a long travel for the apparatus may be arranged for and the pressure desired in the' sprinkling pipes secured by the speed of the engine and pump, all as will be readily understood. lt will be understood, of

`course that the sprinkling heads c may be any appropriate form, but the preferred arrangement is illustrated in Fig. 8.

Having 'thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by, Letters Patent, is

1.fIn a traveling 4sprinkling apparatus,

the combination of a track, a water supply alongside said track, a truck adapted to travel on said track, a tank carried by said truck, means for automatically supplying said tank with water from said Water supply while the vapparatus is movin comprising a supply pipe, a swinging epending nozzle thereon arranged to register with the discharge opening of the supply pipe when swung at an angle and to cover saidopening when hanging normally and locatedl to be operated by contact with the moving apparatus, an engine and pump mounted ou said truck, means for propelling said truck operated by said engine, a sprinkling "pipe carriedby said truck, a suction pipe leading from the tank to said pump, and a discharge port on eac pipe leading from. said to said sprinkf ling pipe, all substanti y as set forth.

2.1In a traveling sprinkling apparatus,

the combination of a track, a truck thereon,

a frame on said truck, a sprinkler mounted on said frame, a tank on said frame, a pumpA on said frame, an engine for operatin the pump and also propellin said truc a water supply pipe alongsi e the track provided with a serles of stand pipes, a swing-v ing nozzle on each of said stand pipes, thel lower end of which is in the path of the top of said tank, said swinging nozzle being adapted to o en the discharge port of the stand pipe w en swung to an angle, and to close said port when hanging vert1cally,sub y stantially asset forth. A

3. In a sprinklmg apparatus, the combi-il nation of a traveling sprinkler comprising a tank mounted on a truck, a water plpe, a series of stand pipes connected with saidl water pipe, a Swingin nozzle controlling a of said stand pipes and arranged in the path of the tank on said truck, the lower end of each nozzle being normally below the upper edge of4 said tank,

whereby in passing said nozzle said tank will swing said nozzle to open the discharge port, substantially as set forth.

4. In asprinkling apparatus, thecombination, of a traveling sprinkler, a tank carried on the truck thereof, a water supply pipe alongside the path of-said truc stand pipe extending up from said pi e with a swinging nozzle on its upper en lsaid stand pipe and nozzle being provided with v 27th day of December, A. D. nineteen hundred and six.

l EZRA A. MATHERS. [n 3.] lVit-nesses .Y

W. F. WESLEY, Enw. I. DORAN.

when v om its 

